PSALM 80

¹For the lead player, on the shoshanim, an eduth, an Asaph psalm.

    ²Shepherd of Israel, hearken,

          He Who drives Joseph like sheep,

                enthroned on the cherubim, shine forth.

    ³Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh

          rouse Your might

                and come to the rescue for us.

    ⁴O God, bring us back,

          and light up Your face that we may be rescued.

          ⁵LORD, God of Armies, how long will You smolder against Your

          people’s prayer?

    ⁶You fed them bread of tears

          and made them drink triple measure of tears.

    7You have put us in strife with our neighbors,

          and our enemies mock us.

    ⁸God of Armies, bring us back,

          and light up Your face that we may be rescued.

    ⁹You carried a vine out of Egypt,

          You drove away nations and planted it.

    ¹⁰You cleared space before it

          and struck its roots down,

                and it filled the land.

    ¹¹The mountains were covered by its shade,

          and by its branches the mighty cedars.

    ¹²You sent forth its boughs to the sea

          and to the River its shoots.

    ¹³Why did You break through its walls

          so all passersby could pluck it?

    ¹⁴The boar from the forest has gnawed it,

          and the swarm of the field fed upon it.

    ¹⁵God of Armies, pray, come back,

          look down from the heavens and see,

                and take note of this vine,

    ¹⁶and the stock that Your right hand planted,

          and the son You took to Yourself—

    ¹⁷burned in fire, chopped to bits,

          from the blast of Your presence they perish.

    ¹⁸May Your hand be over the man on Your right,

          over the son of man You took to Yourself.

    ¹⁹And we will not fall back from You.

          Restore us to life and we shall call on Your name.

    ²⁰LORD God of Armies, bring us back.

          Light up Your face, that we may be rescued.